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Effects upon the performance of scottish blackface ewes with different nutrition during the second oestrous cycle after ram joining

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

A Waterhouse  and
Louise C. Roger
A Waterhouse
Affiliation:
West of Scotland College, Animal Production Department, Kirkton
Louise C. Roger
Affiliation:
Auchtertyre Farms, Alpha Centre, Hillfoots Road, Stirling FK9 4NF
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The availability of high quality pasture for mating is frequently limited in hill farming systems. The majority of ewes usually conceive during their first oestrous cycle after ram joining. More effecient use might therefore be made of better grassland if ewes could be successfully returned to their hill grazings part way through the mating period. This would allow either a longer period of availability of improved grass before ram joining or more logically access by a larger number of ewes to the improved grassland area.

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Sheep Production
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1990 , March 1990 , pp. 165
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1990

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